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". . .One night in Damascus, I met a 33-year-old computer programmer named Amir who had been part of the nonviolent protest movement from the beginning. . . I … [Continue Reading]
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"This is a recipe for a 9 layer cake - a play on the 9 circles of hell in Dante's 'Inferno.' While that cake is representative of hell it tastes positively … [Continue Reading]
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"Now on exhibit is an engraved marble wall mural of Dante Alighieri's INFERNO based on 70 images by nineteenth century French engraver Gustave Dore'. … [Continue Reading]
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This delicious version of Dante's Inferno was found on the "What Cakes May Come" Flickr page. … [Continue Reading]
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"Mr. Parks lives in Milan, where he runs a postgraduate translation program at Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne. Living here saves him from the … [Continue Reading]
Categories of Sightings
- Consumer Goods (53)
- Dining & Leisure (38)
- Music (41)
- Odds & Ends (35)
- Performing Arts (107)
- Places (25)
- Visual Art & Architecture (72)
- Written Word (164)
About this Project
This experimental website, inspired by students of Arielle Saiber’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy” course, has been built to archive occurrences of Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture of the twentieth century and beyond. The site catalogs a wide range of Dante "sightings": from the cursory to the extensive, and from a place of superficial knowledge of Dante and his works to deep familiarity with them. We leave to the readers the opportunity to judge the nature of each citing, and note the frequency of certain themes over others. The goals are twofold: 1) to provide a central access point for said references; and 2) to offer data that students and scholars of Dante can use to think about the Nachleben (“afterlife”) of Dante’s works in relation to reception theory, resonance, and cultural studies.
